Important Geography Quiz 24

What is called a region of high latitude almost without trees, which results from the presence of permafrost (permanently frozen land to a great depth)?

The continent Africa can be divided into three geographic regions. The Northern Plateau, and the Eastern Desert. In which region Sahara is located that occupies more than one quarter of Africa's land?

Australia is the only continent occupied by a single nation, the commonwealth of Australia. A federal union comprises six states, namely, the island of Tasmania, Queens land. New south Wales, Victoria, South, Australia, Western Australia, the Northern territory and the Australian capital territory. What is the area of continent?

The maximum elevation of continent Asia is:

Undersea earth quake or volcanic eruption generates a wave. What is it called?

The southern boundary of tropics, 23.5 South ltitudes is called:

Name the part of the atmosphere that is 10-40 km from the Earth's surface, where the temperature slowly rises from a low of 55c/- 67 F? to around ?C/32 F??

Who led first marine expedition to travel around the earth?

Which instrument is used to measure the quantity of rainfall?

In Arctic Ocean, about 700 km from the tip of Greenland is located the northernmost point of the earth. What is this point called?

What are called those tides which are formed when Sun and Moon are at right angles with the earth; they pull against each other to give lowered tides?

What are Tropics?

What is Savannah?

Which of these continents does not contain a desert?

Glaciers are found on every continent except:

Point out the hard, solid matter of earth's crust that is sometimes a combination of one or more minerals?

Which of the following is/are the effects of Rotation"?

Mention the cause(s) of change in seasons?

More than 95 percent of the surface of Antarctica is covered with ice and the continent contains about 70 per cent of the world's fresh water. What is the total area of the continent?

Name the significant mountain range that is located in North America?

Rainforests are dense forests usually found on or near equator where the climate is hot and wet. Over half the tropical rainforests are in central and south America. Where rest of rainforests is founded?

Which continent is known as the 'White Continent'?

Mention the Isthmus that joins the Central and North America?

River is a long channel of water. What the ground beneath the river is called?

World's second largest continent covers about 22 per cent of the world's total land area. Name the continent?

Name the type of tropical wind that blows strongest in Pakistan, India and Southeast Asia. During winter it blows from the land to the sea, and in summer it blows from sea onto land?

Which points draw boundary between Europe and Asia according to modern geographers?

The lowest point of North America is 86 m below the sea level. Name the point?

The llongest river on Earth, the Nile, flows in Africa and world's largest desert is also located in Africa. What is the total area of the continent?

South America extends about 7400 km from the Caribbean Sea in the north to Cape Horn in South, astride the equator and the tropic of Capricorn. What is the total area of South America?

Asia is the largest continent and cover about one-third of the world's total land area. How much area is covered by Asia?

North America shares irregular coastline with many prominent offshore islands, including the largest island in the world. Name the island?

South Pole is the southernmost tip of the Earth in Antarctica. Who was the first man who reached at South Pole in 1911?

The average annual precipitation in Antarctica is only about highest continent, with an average elevation of about 2,000 m. (8,000 m. *,000 feet). Which is the maximum elevation of the continent?

Which continent stretches from the harsh, wintry environs of the Arctic Ocean to the tropical Yucat Peninsula?

The Continent Europe is also known as Europa. Althouth conventionally referred to as one of the seven continents of the world, Europe is actually just the western fifth of the Eurasian land mass. What is the total area of continent?

Tropic of cancer is:

In which continent both the lowest and highest points on the earth's surface are located?

In which regions four season, spring, summer, autumn and winter are observed?

In 1909, an American explorer was the first man who reached at the North Pole. Name the explorer?

Antarctica consists of two main geological areas, East Antarctica is probably a Precambrian shield covered by thousand of metres of ice. West Antarctica is volcanic and includes several mountain ranges. Which region is bordered by west Antarctica?

Where does most of steppe lie?

In physical geography, the Earth is often split either into several spheres or environments, the main spheres being the:

The moon orbits the Earth because it is pulled towards it by the earth's gravity. The earth is also pulled by the Moon's gravity. This causes the movement of water on earth. What is called this movement?

How is known magma when it reaches the surface?

What is meant by the term 'Archipelago'?

A crack in the earth's crust through which hot magma and gases well up is known as:

What occurs when water vapour condenses in the atmosphere at a temperature below freezing point and forms ice crystals?

When the sun and moon are in a line with the earth, they pull together to give very high tides. What these tides are called?

How is known the divisions of the year that is characterized by cyclical changes in the predominant weather pattern?

Light rain is less than 2.5m m/h; moderate rain is up to 7.6 m m/h. What is the ration of heavy rain?

Winds are divided into three board groups that are:

The conventional boundary between Europe and Asia is drawn along the Ural Mountains, the River Ural, the Caspian Sea and then west along the Caucasus Mountains to the Black Sea. Which term is used by geographers to refer Europe and Asia as a single continent?

How is termed an area in a desert where there is sufficient water for plants to grow?

When rain falls during the sunshine a bow or arc is seen in the sky opposite the sun. What this bow is called?

In which continent, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela are situated?

Which theory explains the movements of the continents of the Earth?

Name the largest Oasis, bordered by barren desert and which is the home of most of Egypt's people?

World's largest island is Australia Name the smallest continent?

Rain is water drops falling through the atmosphere. It is the liquid form of precipitation. Raindrops range in size up to 4 mm in diameter. What is rain called when raindrops are smaller than 0.5mm?

Which of the following continents has a lowest population density, with about sixteen million people living in a country almost as large as the US?

Which is the highest point of North America?

Which of the following are the vast rolling grasslands of Eastern Europe, and central and eastern Asia, stretching as far as Siberia?

Mount Everest, with 8,848 m elevation, is the highest point of the world located in Asia. Which of the following is the lowest point and what is its elevation?

What is the highest record of staying in space?

What is called the study of radio waves emitted naturally by objects in space, by means of radio telescope?